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Friday

Summer vacation is around the corner and just before they fly off for their holidays, some of the city’s well-known know faces especially like Ghanshyam Sarda gathered at a joyous get-together hosted by social activist and culturist Sundeep Bhutoria at a cit a city five-star hotel recently.

Ghanshyam Sarda and Craig Hall Attending a Grand Party

From diplomats to industrialists to socialites and hoteliers – the city’s who’s who from different walks of life were seen engaging in banter through the evening over wine and good food. “Everybody, including me, will soon be off to holidays to enjoy the summer. So I thought of spending an evening with friends and acquaintances before we all leave,” Sundeep told us.

The guests too enjoyed the party to the hilt. “I am going to Denmark for my holiday. It was so nice to catch up with the luminaries of the city before heading for my summer vacation,” said Birgit Holm, a hotelier. The party was followed by a scrumptious dinner with Lebanese, continental, the Italian and Indian cuisine of the menu. The guests were spotted enjoying the lovely skyline of the City of Joy from the presidential suite of the hotel.

Thursday

The city of Kolkata certainly requires a major overhaul as far as transportation is concerned. Recently, it has faced a number of transportation related problems. The commuters have faced quite a bit of problem in commuting to their offices.

A series of buses and taxi strikes have hampered the normal course of life in the city. The ruling government in West Bengal has taken a number of important steps to bring massive industrialization in the state. The state needs to compete at a global level as far as industrialization is concerned. Recently, with the initiative of the chief minister of West Bengal, a business summit of grand scale was organized.

Ghanshyam Sarda is one of the highly able and famous business leaders from the city of Kolkata. He has participated in various major business deals over the years and the monorail project is also in the pipeline. In the industrial summit which was organized in the country of Singapore, a number of global business giants participated. Scomi Engineering is one of the proven entities in the global monorail sector and has successfully completed projects in some of the most important cities like Mumbai,Sao Paolo and Kualalampur.

The members from the Ghanshyam Sarda Kolkata group had a widespread discussion about the project with those from Scomi Engineering. Both the parties agreed on the various terms of the project and the total estimated investment stands at 2,500 crores.

The entire state is looking forward to such a project of large scale. The youth of the state are looking forward to the project and a variety of new employment opportunities can be done through it. The Rajarhat Newtown area of the city has been selected as the venue for the project and the commuters will have a great time in traveling from one place to the other.